Wind & Rhythm

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We're the gathering place for people who love band music.

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When we claim to be "the gathering place for people who love band music," we're talking about a group of over 38 million people in the US alone. In America, hearing classical music "live" usually means hearing it at a band concert. We love marches and the music of Holst and Vaughan Williams, but the repertoire for winds is formidable. And the culture of wind music is vibrant, including people of all ages!


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While you’re buying and wrapping presents for Christmas, going to concerts and taking care of those last minute Christmas activities, up in Chicago...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
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Every four years we get a bonus day thanks to Leap Year. The word bonus means something extra, something good. Now for all of us stuck in linear ti...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
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Last week, we talked about the music that might be called counter-enlightenment, the music of the Romantic Era. The Enlightenment was an amazing mo...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
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The Romantic Era of Classical Music wasn’t as long as the Renaissance Era. It lasted from 1815 to 1910. Just 95 years, but it produced some of the ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
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How could I resist? When the name of the ensemble is the Chicago Gargoyle Brass and Organ Ensemble it immediately gets my attention. As much as I l...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
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Much of the music of the Renaissance was performed within the spacious acoustics of cathedrals. A new recording came into my hands and it shakes up...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
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While talking with some associates this week, I again had reason to consider the question that drives musicians to perform. There are so many behav...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
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How many musicians think of themselves as ‘Professionals’? Somewhere along the line, I learned that there were a few jobs described as professions,...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2016
  • Length: 58:09
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Change. Just saying the word shakes us up, especially in election years. It may be a simple concept. Yet it is unsettling. When I planned this epis...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
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Not too long ago, I knew what day Wind & Rhythm would be heard. When we started our broadcast with a single station in 2008, back when we could onl...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2015
  • Length: 58:30